The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
The twilight turns from amethyst To deep and deeper blue, The lamp fills with a pale green glow The trees ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Himself it was who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
Nature affects to be sedate Upon occasion, grand But let our observation shut Her practices extend To Necromancy and the ...
Dust is the only Secret -- Death, the only One You cannot find out all about In his "native town." ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
Listen, ladies, while I sing The ballad of John Henry King. John Henry was a bachelor, His age was thirty-three ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
HERE is the chamber consecrate, Wherein this maiden delicate, And enigmatically sedate, Fans herself while the moments creep, Upon her ...
See, he sitteth on his mat Sitteth there upright, With the grace with which he sat While he saw the ...
It was the steamer Alice May that sailed the Yukon foam. And touched in every river camp from Dawson down ...
Since I have come to years sedate I see with more and more acumen The bitter irony of Fate, The ...
As in the hostel by the bridge I sate, Nailed with indifference fondly deemed complete, And (O strange chance, more ...
In distant New Zealand, whose tresses of gold The billows are ceaselessly combing, Away in a village all tranquil and ...
There still are kindly things for me to know, Who am afraid to dream, afraid to feel- This little chair ...
I thought, in the days of the droving, Of steps I might hope to retrace, To be done with the ...
Children Pray dearest mother if you please Cut up your double-curded cheese, The oldest of the brotherhood. It's ripe, no ...
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